This is an overview of data preparation for ‘8635.0 - Tourist Accommodation, Australia, 2015-16’ dataset from ABS.
Data are openly available. Unfortunately they can only be dowloaded in form of horribly designed spreadsheets:
Note the empty cells! Comment for them says:
not available for publication but included in totals where applicable, unless otherwise indicated
Final dataset consists of 11856 rows representing 12 observations (months) for 988 SA2s.
There are 8.597767710^{7} GNO in total.
SA2s differ in how many months of data they have information on.
There are 419 with any values, out of which 351 have complete year of monthly data and
569 with no values. Additionally, there are other SA2s not present in the data which obviously will also have no values on accomodations.
Distribution of areas with and without data: